Evija X laps the Nürburgring Nordschleife
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- Join us in the cockpit as Evija X laps the Nürburgring Nordschleife.
Evija X is a one-off, track version, of the groundbreaking all-electric Lotus Evija hypercar. Here it takes on the most challenging and legendary circuits in the world.
Here's the lap...and we think it has more to give...
lotuscars.com/evija
Evija X Stats
Quadmotor EV drivetrain
Max Power - 2,011hp
Max Torque - 1,704nm
Vmax - 350kph
Max downforce - 4,500kg at Vmax
Evija X
Evija X Pro Driver: Dirk Müller
Chief Engineer, Group Lotus: Louis Kerr
Head of Project, Group Lotus - Stuart Knight
Electric Motor and Inverter: Helix
Tyres: Pirelli bespoke slick tyres
Charging: GCK Energy
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No music, no flashy drone footage, this is how you do a track video! Take this thing to Bathurst next, or Laguna Seca..
I’m not sure a drone could keep up anyway 😂
@@ISpinUWin 😀
Bathurst would be insane...
@@MartinBahls Corkscrew ?
How about Pike's Peak?!?
Appreciate the left foot braking! And the whole video layout.
Can you really call it left foot braking in a 2 pedal car tho
@@CalyxYes….
@@Max_RO1 well, I disagree. Left foot braking is when you have to physically switch between the clutch and the brake thus making it a technique that one would need to master.
@@Calyx ….And while that may be partly true it’s irrelevant as the driver in this video still used their left foot to brake hence left foot braking.
@@Max_RO1 Might aswell comment on the fact that he's right foot accelerating then.
The lack of a roaring engine some how makes this more visceral as its just that brutal acceleration and road sounds. Wow. Just wow. That driver has laser focus to survive that and get that car around like that. Mind blown.
I was gripping the edge of my desk watching him drive the whole way around. Absolutely fantastic driving, and agreed the sound makes it more gripping!!!
Agreed. The sheer physics of what's happening are on greater display. I feel like you can get a much better sense of the level of grip this way as well.
Finally a video of a lap of the Nordschleife which is not too long to watch.
A little slow compared to the ID.R but yeah good pace otherwise.
@@barath4545yea that thing is insane. Though it wouldn't exactly be a fair comparison, the Evija is working with a production body and motors
When it looks astoundingly fast on video.... you know performance like that would melt your brain and batter your body in real life. Kudos to the driver. Amazing! 👏 👏
Hats off, Dirk Müller !
As many said already, in various ways : this looked like an incredibly fast lap.
So close to unreal, in fact !
Thanks for "raw" footage and sound, it helps realise that this video isn't played faster than it was filmed.
Blah blah blah....
This Lotus is NOT a "production car" at all!
If you want to see what's really "unreal", just watch Timo Bernhards record lap in the Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo. This lap was on a totally new level!
With more than 2000 hp from four electric motors in a very light car, a lap time of "only 6:24 min." isn't that impressive at all!
This is only 20 seconds faster than with a Porsche 911 GT2 RS (Generation 991) from five years ago....
The forthcoming new Porsche 992 GT2 RS most certainly will beat the Lotus Evija lap time.... With not even half of the Lotus power. Just think about that?!
@user-jf8gd3lv7q you sound quite angry and dismissive about someone just posting their own opinion with your reply..its as if you think there opinion isn't worth the time of day and your opinion trumps everyone else.
@@Porsche1969 no need to have a tantrum that your precious Porsche was beaten, simply wait for the new one 👍
@@Porsche1969 also fun fact the porsche is a lmp1 car with no rules and it costs more then lotus to even make. This is a fantastic lap from a pure British car company so stop being stupid
@@HORSEPOWER_MOTORSPORT Thank god Brexit.... 🤦♂🤦♂😂😂
Unreal bravery, well over 2 G's in corners, insanely high speed and insane acceleration, that was gut wrenching. Our future is in pretty good hands.
300 through foxhole, 270 at the compression.
Absolute madness.
u can hear it bottoming out, absolute insanity
Came here to say this
1.9G oO
in America we say 200 mph
This looks fast as hell. Unimagineable that Porsche did the lap one minute faster.
The acceleration out of the turns is absolutely insane
I think all that acceleration (which will make shit into the pants in most of us) is kinda a necessity for the recharging even in not fast tracks...
I'm not follow a lot the electric cars but I think is that the reason for such accelerations
Really amazing achievment !! Pure madness on G's when accelerating !
Wow, absolutely beyond phenomenal, mind blowing awesome, loved every second of it, got a little crazy a few times but the platinum driver was extraordinary, thank you so so so much, that was a beyond fabulous gift; sharing this sublime drive on one of the most beyond challenging road course in the world, I absolutely loved the sound of just the wind and tires screaming through the air, this hypercar is for me the beyond ultimate hypercar in the world, it's a masterpiece of art and engineering 🔥🔥🔥
1983 porsche 956: umm yeahh..
I have to wonder just how much faster you could possibly drive the ring. The acceleration on this car is pure nuts and the speed he carried thru many of those corners was gut churning
Not an electric car fan. But this is scary as fuck and very impressive.
YES! More of this please Lotus!
Wow! That was amazing to watch! Kudos to the driver!🔥🔥🔥
Insane, I felt like I was inside the car... even the sensation of speed scared me!
Lotus are absolutely cracked at what they do. Great stuff
We are getting closer and closer to a real life SRT Tomahawk X. Insane how fast this car goes around the ring.
damn this is fast like hell, definitely 100% showed what you want on a EV and have nothing you didn't like on a EV
Besides the ev
Holy mother, that looks unreal!
Knows the track well 👌 driven this track like it was his backyard 😂
This so absurd the video looks sped up. Yes is 💯 real. Hats off to the engineers on this beautiful build.
Wow,verdammt schnell 👍🚘👍
Glückwunsch zu der Runde
Wow, how fast was that, it was like playing a video game.
About as fast as the video showed you. The time and speed is right there...
@@bentucker2301 I think he is exclaiming , " Is that fast enough everyone ?? " in appreciation . Or, perhaps not.
thats fucking nuts. at first i thought "oh another electric car" but then he floored it. goddamn.
35 seconds faster than the Rimac! 😮
Yeah but non road legal car, if it was road legal Evija version then that will be impressive
@@TRX25EX oh i think it is from prod car. after read some articles. it is just production chassis
LMAO this is a race car on slick tires and huge downforce, far less weight, totally stripped out and heavily modified, and totally road illegal. Rimac is a comfortable GT car that was fully stock and road legal that weighs 2,5 tons (actually 2.7 in the record car since it carried a bunch of diagnostic gear still) and a battery with a range of 600km. This Lotus is totally stripped out, literally doesn't have an interior, and has a small battery for a single lap. It's a purpose built car for a single lap run, and heavily modified, and nowhere near being a stock road car. Rimac did the lap and then went on to cruise around Europe for more promo after it. Considering how badly the Rimac was driven too, nowhere near the limit, as that car can realistically do a 6:45 lap if not driven as badly as it was, the gap between these two is too small. Makes the Rimac look even more impressive if anything. This Lotus should be like 1 minute per lap faster and realistically it's around 20 seconds.
Point being, this is like comparing a Bentley Continental GT and a GT3 race car.
Evija X is 40 SECONDS faster than Nevera! Too bad it's not street legal... That makes it allmost useless record! Porsche 919 Hybrid Recordcar was much faster with 5.19min Laptime if I remember correctly...🤔
@@einautofan6685 More to the point, an AMG ONE did an almost as fast lap on a track that was semi-wet, and that car weighs more than the Lotus, has less than 1/3 of the downforce, and has 1/2 the power-to-weight ratio. All facts point to the Lotus actually being very slow for what it is, a GT3 style race car but with twice the downforce (4.5 tons at top speed) and with 2000hp instead of 500-600hp, yet it's no faster than GT3 race cars.
That is impressive, nice work
Congratulations LOTUS!! You made great cars!!!!!! 👍👌
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This is really amazing, i hope to be able to ride it there someday.🥰 love it
Incredible! Light speed!
Damn! Watching this makes my toes curl.😮😮😮
Whoa, looks fast forwarded. Incredible.
Impressive considering the weight and the fact that its a road car. ❤
Terrifyingly fast !
Would take some getting used to !
I’m astounded at what I’ve just watched 😮
This was amazing to watch
The real amazing thing is how the 919 was a minute faster…
919 hybrid without rules, evija x theoreticaly road legal electric?
The acceleration is insane! How many laps can you drive that fast?
That is MAD 🔥🔥🔥
Love all the experts in the comments. There are bosses in this world, and people that get bossed around. That way for a reason.
Them brakes after that final straight... damn! Be glowing red hot for hrs!
Wow! What an amazing car and driver !!!
Lethally fast….Any on helmet footage, so we can see what the driver experienced ?
Incredible.
2.1g of grip ….. wow 🤩
I fixed 2.19 G at 0.25 speed. 5:58-5:59.
This is not a drive, this is a flight.
No because there is practically no climb
That was insane.
yeah its got more to give I'll bet that was a blast though...
Looked incredible. Slightly nervous steering?
why did you filter off the sound of the engine?
Over 2 Gs on the accelerometer at times, wow!
very impressive
still wild to see this kind of speed without hearing the screams of an IC engine in the mix. It almost feels like the first time I saw an EV under power pulling away from the coffee shop years ago. just a wierd silence and a mental disconnect. Sadly the owner of that EV killed himself a few years later. He was a researcher into alternative fuels, and a nice guy.
Good job Lotus!
Fantastic experience keep doing 👍
Wow.... Pikes Peak next 🤔
How do you play in normal speed? Mines stuck at 4x
need that active aero lol left alot of seconds sitting out there on that straight away. 212 mph is fast but not as fast as it should be moving.
Just seen this thing crash in 2 seconds at goodwood
Truly amazing.
holy balls 😳
Wow great video…..I want one
Unreal...🔥
wow just wow!!!
6m24s seems slow for such a fast looking lap. ❤ Flying.
There is somehing of 2001 space odyssey when the car gets up to high speed.
When will you try to beat current production lap record? 6:35
It's unbelievable
First time I watched the whole track video...
Nathan Explosion would say , Brutal !
Lets Let A.I. drive now and see how much faster this is done! .....Jensen Huang 2024
Car immediately crashes at full speed when there is no turn.
AI has a lot of data to digest before driving in the real world.
is this on road-legal tyres?
"Pirelli bespoke slick tyres" NOPE!
Bloody awesome
amazing
Nice train 😮❤
Une nouvelle faiseuse de veuves
That's insane!!!🤪
Super fast… I’d be curious to see a side by side with the Porsche 919 video…
Damn! that's impressive
this is a scary ride. the driver brakes more than the accelerator 😄
make a f1 version of the evija and let max verstappen drive it around monaco then we will see how fast it is
Nice.
Someone send this thing through Eau Rouge NOW!
Madness.
I'm guessing the speedometer is in KPH? Or can this thing hit 250 MPH that quick?
Yes
6.24.... means lotus break the lap record????? omg.....damn!
No. It didn't brake any record
I had to check the playback speed of the video it was so fast
Seems like it didn't really use all of its power. Top speed clearly limited, maybe by gear ratio?
Eek! I wonder what the car looks like from the outside….
How many full throttle laps can it do in a row?
one...
I'm exhausted
1:35 that 300 looks in fact like 600 🤯
No sound😢😢
is this the fastest lap of all time?
It was one minute slower than 919 hybrid evo so I would say it is fast
Nice!
This is what I want in the 2026 Emira GT
1. YES YES ... Two centered - 10 inch monitors. One for radio, navigation camera views. 2nd everything else.
2. No electronic dashboard. 8 analog gauges: ... rpm, speed, oils, press. trans, battery, fuels, waters, temps.
3. No massive center steering wheel air bag cluster .
4. No electronic seat adjustments. Lightweight seats less than 25 lbs, with hand pump adjustment.
5. No, heating of steering wheel required. No cooling of steering wheel. No heated rear view mirror.
6. No, alcantara interior at all except for the ceiling. In the heat, Alcantara feels like velour and disintegrates before your eyes.
7. No, electronic telescopic steering column. Manual lever adjustments only.
8. No, lane change/departure warning required.
9. No, automatic forward collision mitigation safety system required.
10. No, automatic hands-free autonomous steering required.
11. No, pedestrian-detection system required.
12. No, parking distance display and park assist required.
13. No, self-parking system required.
14. No warning collision detections from rear view mirrors
15. 8 to 12 cameras to be accessed from 2nd monitor.
16. When driving, able to record front & rear camera views whenever required
It hears like an airplane!
That must take some nerve to do that!